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|name = Howrah Dakshin 
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|map_caption = Location in West Bengal
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|subdivision_type = Country
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|subdivision_type1 = [[States and territories of India|State]]
|subdivision_name1 = [[West Bengal]]
|subdivision_type2 = [[List of districts of West Bengal|District]]
|subdivision_name2 = [[Howrah district|Howrah]]
|subdivision_type3 = [[List of constituencies of the West Bengal Vidhan Sabha|Constituency No]]
|subdivision_name3 = 173
|subdivision_type4 = Type
|subdivision_name4 = Open
|subdivision_type5 = [[Lok Sabha]] constituency
|subdivision_name5 = [[Howrah (Lok Sabha constituency)|25. Howrah]]
|subdivision_type6 = Electorate (year)
|subdivision_name6 = 294,099 (2021)

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'''Howrah Dakshin (Vidhan Sabha constituency)''' ({{lang-bn|হাওড়া দক্ষিন বিধানসভা কেন্দ্র}}) (earlier called Howrah South) is an [[Vidhan Sabha|assembly]] constituency in [[Howrah district]] in the [[India]]n [[States and territories of India|state]] of [[West Bengal]].

==Overview==
As per orders of the Delimitation Commission, No. 173 Howrah Dakshin (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is composed of the following: Ward Nos. 35, 38 to 41 and 44 to 46 of [[Howrah Municipal Corporation]] and Duila, Jorhat, Panchpara and Thanamakua [[gram panchayat]]s of [[Sankrail]] [[Community Development Block in India|community development block]].<ref name=delimitation>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/delim/Final_Publications/WestBengal/FINAL%20ORDER%20NOTIFICATION_English.pdf | title = Delimitation Commission Order No. 18 dated 15 February 2006 | access-date= 25 July 2015|work = West Bengal| publisher= Election Commission of India}}</ref>

Howrah South (Vidhan Sabha constituency) is part of No. 25 [[Howrah (Lok Sabha constituency)]].<ref name=delimitation/>

==Members of Legislative Assembly==
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! Election<br/> Year!!Constituency!!Name of M.L.A.!!Party Affiliation
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|[[1951 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1951]]||Howrah North||Biren Banerjee||[[Communist Party of India]]<ref name=vidhansabha1952>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1951/STATISTICALREPORTS_51_WestBengal.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1951, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, Assembly Constituency No. |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
|-
|||Howrah South||Beni Charan Dutta||[[Indian National Congress]]<ref name=vidhansabha1952/>
|-
|||Howrah West||Bankim Chandra Kar||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1952/>
|-
|||Howrah East||Saila Kumar Mukhopadhyay||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1952/>
|-
|[[1957 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1957]]||Howrah North||Samar Mukhopadhyay||Communist Party of India<ref name=vidhansabha1957>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1957/StatRep_WB_1957.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1957, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
|-
|||Howrah South||Kanai Lal Bhattacharya||[[All India Forward Bloc]]<ref name=vidhansabha1957/>
|-
|||Howrah West||Bankim Chandra Kar||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1957/>
|-
|||Howrah East||Beni Charan Dutta||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1957/>
|-
|[[1962 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1962]]||Howrah North||Saila Mukherjee||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1962>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1962/StatRep_WB_1962.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1962, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
|-
|||Howrah South||Kanai Lal Bhattacharya||All India Forward Bloc<ref name=vidhansabha1962/>
|-
|||Howrah West||Anadi Dass||Independent<ref name=vidhansabha1962/>
|-
|||Howrah East||Bejoy Bhattacharya||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1962/>
|-
|[[1967 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|1967]]||Howrah South||B,K.Bhattacharya||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1967>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1967/Statistical%20report%20WB1967.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1967, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
|-
|1969||||Pralay Talukdar||[[Communist Party of India (Marxist)]]<ref name=vidhansabha1969>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1969/StatReport_WB_69.pdf|title = General Elections, India, 1969, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission |access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
|-
|1971||||Santi Kumar Dasgupta||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1971>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1971/StatReport_WB_71.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1971, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No ?|publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
|-
|1972||||Santi Kumar Dasgupta||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1972>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1972/StatReport_WB_72.pdf |title =General Elections, India, 1972, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
|-
|1977||||Pralay Talukdar||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<ref name=vidhansabha1977>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1977/StatisticalReportWestBengal77.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1977, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
|-
|1982|||||Pralay Talukdar||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<ref name=vidhansabha1982>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1982/StatisticalReportWestBengal82.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1982, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
|-
|1987||||Mrityunjoy Banerjee||Indian National Congress<ref name=vidhansabha1987>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1987/StatisticalReportWestBengal87.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1987, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
|-
|1991||||Pralay Talukdar||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<ref name=vidhansabha1991>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1991/StatisticalReport-West%20Bengal91.pdf|title = General Elections, India, 1991, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No | publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
|-
|1996||||Pralay Talukdar||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<ref name=vidhansabha1996>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_1996/StatisticalReport-WB96.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 1996, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 6 February 2015}}</ref>
|-
|[[2001 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2001]]||||Badal Basu||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<ref name=vidhansabha2001>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_2001/StatRept_WB_2001.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 2001, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
|-
|[[2006 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2006]]||||Krishna Kisor Roy||Communist Party of India (Marxist)<ref name=vidhansabha2006>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/SE_2006/StatReport_WB_2006.pdf |title = General Elections, India, 2006, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
|-
|[[2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2011]]||Howrah Dakshin||Brojo Mohan Mazumdar||[[All India Trinamool Congress]]<ref name=vidhansabha2011>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/AE2011/stat_WB_May2011.pdf|title = General Elections, India, 2011, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | access-date = 9 July 2015}}</ref>
|}
|[[2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2016]]||Howrah Dakshin||Brojo Mohan Mazumdar||[[All India Trinamool Congress]]<ref name=vidhansabha2016>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/AE2016/stat_WB_May2016.pdf|title = General Elections, India, 2016, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | </ref>

|}|[[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election|2021]]||Howrah Dakshin||Nandita Roy Choudhury||[[All India Trinamool Congress]]<ref name=vidhansabha2021>{{cite web| url =http://eci.nic.in/eci_main/StatisticalReports/AE2021/stat_WB_May2021.pdf|title = General Elections, India, 2021, to the Legislative Assembly of West Bengal | work= Constituency-wise Data, AC No |publisher= Election Commission | </ref>
|}

==Election results==
===2021===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2021 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]: [[Howrah|Howrah Dakshin]]}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = Nandita Chowdhury
|votes = 1,16,839
|percentage = 53.86
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Rantidev Sengupta
|votes = 66,270
|percentage = 30.55
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = Sumitra Adhikari
|votes = 27,287
|percentage = 12.58
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = None of the above
|candidate = None of the above
|votes = 2,948
|percentage = 1.36
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[Independent (politician)|IND]]
|candidate = Sushanta Mondal
|votes =1,063
|percentage =0.49
|change =
}}

{{Election box majority
|votes = 50,569
|percentage = 23.62
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 2,17,055
|percentage = 73.77
|change =
}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}
===2016===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2016 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]: [[Howrah|Howrah Dakshin]]}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = Brajamohan Majumder
|votes = 93,689
|percentage = 47.79
|change =
}}

{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = Arindam Basu
|votes = 77,495
|percentage = 39.53
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Sahana Guha Roy
|votes = 16,277
|percentage = 8.30
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = None of the above
|candidate = None of the above
|votes = 3,816
|percentage = 1.95
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bahujan Samaj Party
|candidate = Srinath Yadav
|votes =1,249
|percentage =0.64
|change =
}}

{{Election box majority
|votes = 16,194
|percentage = 8.26
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 1,96,208
|percentage = 73.58
|change =
}}
{{Election box hold with party link
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|swing =
}}
{{Election box end}}

===2011===
{{Election box begin | title=[[2011 West Bengal Legislative Assembly election]]: [[Howrah|Howrah Dakshin]]<ref name=vidhansabha2011/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://www.empoweringindia.org/new/constituency.aspx?eid=736&cid=173|title = West Bengal Assembly Election 2011 |work = Howrah Dakshin| publisher =Empowering India |access-date = 1 May 2011}}</ref>}}

{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = All India Trinamool Congress
|candidate = Broja Mohan Majumdar
|votes = 1,01,066
|percentage = 56.06
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|candidate = Krishna Kishor Roy
|votes = 69,644
|percentage = 38.63
|change = -9.43
}}
{{Election box candidate with party link
|party = Bharatiya Janata Party
|candidate = Pramila Singh
|votes = 4,256
|percentage = 2.36
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[Independent politician|IND]]
|candidate = Sekh Abdul Momin
|votes = 1,803
|percentage = 1.00
|change =
}}
{{Election box candidate
|party = [[Independent (politician)|IND]]
|candidate = Biswanath Mete
|votes =828
|percentage =0.46
|change =
}}
{{Election box majority
|votes = 31,422
|percentage = 17.43
|change =
}}
{{Election box turnout
|votes = 1,80,437
|percentage = 76.94
|change =
}}
{{Election box gain with party link
|winner = All India Trinamool Congress
|loser = Communist Party of India (Marxist)
|swing = #
}}
{{Election box end}}
<small>.# Trinamool Congress did not contest this seat in 2006.</small>

===1977-2006===
In the [[2006 West Bengal state assembly election|2006 state assembly elections]],<ref name=vidhansabha2006/> Krishna Kisor Ray of [[Communist Party of India|CPI(M)]] won 164 Howrah South assembly seat defeating his nearest rival Amitava Dutta of [[JD(U)]]. Contests in most years were multi cornered but only winners and runners are being mentioned. Badal Basu of CPI(M) defeated Arup Ray of [[All India Trinamool Congress|Trinamool Congress]] in 2001.<ref name=vidhansabha2001/> Pralay Talukdar of CPI(M) defeated Arup Roy of [[Indian National Congress|Congress]] in 1996<ref name=vidhansabha1996/> and Mrityunjoy Banerjee of Congress in 1991.<ref name=vidhansabha1991/> Mrityunjoy Banerjee of Congress defeated Pralay Talukdar of CPI(M) in 1987.<ref name=vidhansabha1987/> Pralay Talukdar of CPI(M) defeated Amiya Kumar Dutta of Congress in 1982<ref name=vidhansabha1982/> and [[Ambica Banerjee]] of Congress in 1977.<ref name=vidhansabha1977/><ref>{{cite web| url = http://eci.nic.in/archive/ElectionAnalysis/AE/S25/Partycomp164.htm |title =164 - Howrah South Assembly Constituency |work = Partywise Comparison Since 1977 | publisher = Election Commission of India|access-date = 25 November 2010}}</ref>

===1951-1972===
Santi Kumar Dasgupta of Congress won in 1972<ref name=vidhansabha1972/> and 1971.<ref name=vidhansabha1971/> Pralay Talukdar of CPI(M) won in 1969.<ref name=vidhansabha1969/> B.K.Bhattacharya of Congress won in 1967.<ref name=vidhansabha1967/> Kanai Lal Bhattacharya of [[All India Forward Bloc|Forward Bloc]] won in [[1962 West Bengal state assembly election|1962]]<ref name=vidhansabha1962/> and [[1957 West Bengal state assembly election|1957]].<ref name=vidhansabha1957/> Beni Charan Dutta of Congress won in [[1952 West Bengal state assembly election|1951]].<ref name=vidhansabha1952/>

==References==
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{{West Bengal elections}}

[[Category:Assembly constituencies of West Bengal]]
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